Re: Recent Facebook Issues

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_squid-cache.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:50:52 +0800

I've emailed the facebook NOC directly about the issue.

Thanks,

Adrian

2009/10/9 Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com>:
> You can try to access facebook with konqueror. It complains
> rather loudly, drops the excess data and the site generally doesn't
> work (has been dong so for a few days, but only NOW I'm connecting the
> wires...)
>
>  Kinkie
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_squid-cache.org> wrote:
>> Ok, this happens for all versions?
>>
>> I can bring this up with facebook engineering if someone provides me
>> with further information.
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> 2009/10/9 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
>>> Thanks to several people I've managed to track down why the facebook issues
>>> are suddenly appearing and why its intermittent.
>>>
>>> On the sometimes works sometimes doesn't problem. facebook.com does
>>> User-Agent header checks and sends back one of four pages.
>>> 1) a generic page saying 'please use another browser'.
>>> 2) a redirect to login for each of IE, Firefox and Safari
>>> 3) a home page (if cookies sent initially)
>>>
>>> going through the login redirects to the page also presented at (3) above.
>>>
>>> The home page is the real problem. When cookies are presented it ships
>>> without Content-Length (fine).
>>> When they _are_ present, ie after the user has logged in it ships with
>>> Content-Length: 18487 and data size of 18576.
>>>
>>> Amos
>>>
>>>
>>
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>    /kinkie
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